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Good week/bad week: all the winners and losers in US politics
Amy Klobuchar was a surprise success story this week while Larry David found himself unwittingly enlisted in the Trump 2020 campaign Continue reading… More
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Trump responds to Barr: I have ‘legal right’ to intervene in criminal cases – live
President tweets that he did not interfere in Roger Stone case – ‘but this doesn’t mean I do not have the legal right to do so’ Help us cover the critical issues of 2020. Consider making a contribution 3.47pm GMT Trump enjoys sewing division in the Democratic primary race, as the party’s hopefuls battle for […] More
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Pete Buttigieg is Biden without the black friends | Malaika Jabali
Buttigieg’s abysmal poll numbers with black voters aren’t a coincidence. He has made almost no effort to reach them While Pete Buttigieg might feel pretty good about effectively tying with Bernie Sanders in Iowa – the votes are still being counted – and landing in second place in New Hampshire, Democrats can count his relative […] More
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‘Barking clown’: Bloomberg fires back on Twitter after Trump taunts
President calls former New York mayor ‘a loser’ Bloomberg says Trump is known as ‘a barking clown’ Donald Trump and his fellow billionaire and would-be presidential challenger, Mike Bloomberg, traded insults on Twitter on Thursday, with Trump dismissing the former New York mayor as a “loser” and Bloomberg describing him as a “barking clown”. Related: […] More
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Black voters hold Buttigieg and Biden’s fates in their hands | Theodore R Johnson
The disparity between the two contenders’ coalitions – and the states in which they’re strong – means as one rises, the other is likely to fall After the first two states in the Democratic presidential primary have had their say, one thing is quite clear: Pete Buttigieg is on the rise and Joe Biden’s campaign […] More
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The Trump era is a golden age of conspiracy theories – on the right and left | Nicolas Guilhot and Samuel Moyn
The only way to fight the spread of conspiracy theories is to reduce the conditions of social inequality that produce them In his novel Foucault’s Pendulum, the late Umberto Eco dreamed up a plot for our time. The book portrays a collection of enlightened skeptics who get swept into conspiracy. First to amuse themselves, and […] More
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After a disappointing start, where does Elizabeth Warren go from here?
She placed third in Iowa and fourth in New Hampshire, but still touts herself as a candidate to excite liberals and please moderates The votes in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary were still being counted when Elizabeth Warren took the stage at a sports center in Manchester to address her supporters. She began by commending her […] More
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Iowa Democratic party chair resigns after caucus chaos
Troy Price says he is ‘deeply sorry for what happened’ at derailed event, as results remain unclear The chair of the Iowa Democratic party, who oversaw a chaotic caucus last week that still has not yielded final results, resigned from his position on Wednesday. Troy Price, who has been the head of the state’s Democratic […] More
